tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post7761963175556507217..comments2024-03-21T21:37:03.772-05:00Comments on Series Books for Girls: More Thoughts on the Twilight SagaJennifer Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-75483686382382253942009-12-30T13:27:12.323-06:002009-12-30T13:27:12.323-06:00Apparently you don't read the adult paranormal...Apparently you don't read the adult paranormal romances. I do because I have friends who write them. The TWILIGHT 'formula' is their basic premise - fatal attractions to moody, distant, abusive, inaccessible males who are vampires, demons, faeries, werewolves, or other kinds of similar weird paranormal creatures.<br /><br />These books are loaded with graphic sex scenes that are mistakenly called 'erotic'; what they are is pornographic. The only saving grace of these hugely popular books is that they always have a happy ending. The inaccessible male 'changes' and devotes his life and love to the heroine; which is, of course, the standard romance genre formula.<br /><br />It interests me that women, who supposedly don't like visual porn, absolutely love written porn. If you check the romance shelves at any bookstore nowadays, you'll find one out of every two books is a sexy paranormal.<br /><br />TWILIGHT and its clones have brought this down to the teen and preteen level. Without the sex, but hinting at it - and certainly presenting fatal obsessive love as an ideal worthy of dying for.<br /><br />Yikes. What next?<br /><br />Whatever happened to Red Gate Farm?<br /><br />I think it's time for Nancy Drew and the Dana Girls to be declared mandatory reading to get young minds off such degrading stuff and on to something more positive.<br /><br />Can it possibly have any merit that this stuff is the rage, other than that people are actually reading?<br /><br />Mikestratomikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14896861715489717197noreply@blogger.com